In 2009 Jamaican pharmaceutical companies Medimpex Jamaica Limited and Lasco Distributors Limited won a patent infringement battle over amlodipine besylate.

After a five-year wait, the eagerly anticipated Geographical Indications Act came into force on June 8 2009, having originally been passed into law in 2004.

After several years of exhaustive consultations, protracted deliberations and draft laws, a new Patents and Designs Act was passed by the Jamaican Parliament in January 2020, ...

What started out as a quest by Pfizer to enforce its local patent against Jamaican distributors of the generic drug turned into an issue about the validity of Pfizer’s Jamaican patent.

When I embarked on my journey into intellectual property law and administration several years ago, I could never have imagined what today's Caribbean intellectual property landscape would look like.

The Trademarks Act is modelled on the UK Trademarks Act 1994, and case law interpreting the UK act provides guidance and persuasive precedent.

This guide is an exclusive service that offers a searchable database of country profiles on the structure of trademark opposition practice and procedure.